chorus

chorus
chŏrus, i, m., = choros [cf. Lidd. and Scott under choros].
I.
A dance in a ring, a choral dance, a dance, = chorea:

chorus et cantus,

 Tib. 1, 7, 44; cf. Prop. 4 (5), 6, 70:

Nympharum leves chori,

 Hor. C. 1, 1, 31:

ferre pedem choris,

 id. ib. 2, 12, 17; Tib. 2, 1, 56:

choros agere,

 Prop. 2, 3, 18:

agitare,

 Verg. G. 4, 533:

ducere,

 Hor. C. 1, 4, 5; 4, 7, 6:

exercere,

 Verg. A. 1, 499:

indicere,

 id. ib. 11, 737:

instaurare,

 Stat. Achill. 4, 145:

ostentare,

 id. ib. 2, 148 sq.:

celebrare,

 Sen. Herc. Oet. 594:

nectere,

 id. ib. 367:

dare,

 Mart. 4, 44.—
b.
The harmonious motions of the heavenly bodies (cf. chorea), Tib. 2, 1, 88. —
II.
Meton. (abstr. pro concr.), a troop or band of dancers and singers, a chorus, choir:

saltatores, citharistas, totum denique comissationis Antonianae chorum, etc.,

 Cic. Phil. 5, 6, 15; Cat. 63, 30:

Phoebi chorus,

 Verg. E. 6, 66; cf. Prop. 3 (4), 5, 20; Hor. C. S. 75:

chorus Dryadum,

 Verg. G. 4, 460:

Nereidum,

 id. A. 5, 240:

Idaei chori,

 id. ib. 9, 112:

Pierius,

 Mart. 12, 3:

canorus,

 Juv. 11, 163; Ov. M. 3, 685.—Of the chorus in tragedy:

actoris partes chorus officiumque virile Defendat, etc.,

 Hor. A. P. 193; cf. id. ib. 283; id. Ep. 2, 1, 134; Gell. 19, 10, 12. —
B.
The heavenly bodies moving in harmony (cf. supra, I. b.):

Pleiadum,

 Prop. 3 (4), 5, 36; Hor. C. 4, 14, 21:

astrorum,

 Stat. Achill. 1, 643.—
C.
In gen., a multitude, band, troop, crowd:

chorus juventutis,

 Cic. Mur. 24, 49:

philosophorum,

 id. Fin. 1, 8, 26; id. Att. 14, 8, 1; so,

vatum,

 Hor. C. 4, 3, 15:

scriptorum,

 id. Ep. 2, 2, 77:

puellarum,

 id. C. 2, 5, 21:

(piscium),

 Sen. Agam. 452:

virtutum,

 Cic. Off. 3, 33, 116; id. Tusc. 5, 5, 13 (hence, Engl. choir, quire; Fr. choeur; Ital. coro).

Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary, 1879. - Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten. . 2011.

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